$10K to $100K per company
A shut-down startup's archive (SimpleClosure's first deals)
Dated 16 Apr 2026Source checked 14 Oct 2026Quote found on its page again 17 Oct 2026Basis: reported
In the source's own words
“the service had processed nearly 100 deals in the preceding year, recovering more than $1 million. He said payments were typically between $10,000 and $100,000 per company.”
Where it was read
Fortune, citing Forbes, checked 14 Oct 2026
Everything read from this source (10)Archived copy, 6 Oct 2026
Also read from the same source
- Spirit Airlines' corporate records archive, micro1's late competing proposal after the auction (in-house de-identification)
- Thirteen years of a closed company's Slack, tickets, email and drives (cielo24)
- A failed startup's codebase
- Failed startups (codebases) to Turing: Five to ten failed-startup codebases bought for AI training data.
- micro1 and unnamed sellers: transaction, company data (unspecified)
- Turing and five to ten failed startups (unnamed): transaction, source code (failed-startup codebases)
What it is about
Figures it counts in
- $28.3K per companyCompany records, sales that happened, per company
- $26,000The smallest sale we take on
- $74,000 to $590,000The valuation tool's range for its starting company's records
- 0%How much the valuation tool raises a company's records when the work is traceable end to end
- 0%How much the valuation tool raises a company's records in a specialised trade
- 81%How much the valuation tool lowers a company's records when the company is closed and its files loose
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